Jimmy Stanback, a 25-year-old Black man, was killed in Minneapolis on May 7, 2016, in a case that has lingered in the city’s memory as both a personal tragedy and part of a larger season of gun violence on the North Side. Public reporting describes him as having been shot to death in an alley just outside his father’s home, a detail that gives the case a stark intimacy: the violence was not distant or abstract, but right at the edge of family space, close enough to deepen the shock for those left behind. In the weeks that followed, his death surfaced again and again through the grief of the people who loved him, especially as his family was drawn into the broader public mourning over Minneapolis homicides that spring and summer. 
What emerges most clearly from the online record is the shape of the loss around him. A CBS Minnesota report on the “Enough Minneapolis” project said his mother, Takisha Randle, spoke of the pain that does not go away, and noted that Jimmy Stanback was a father himself. That same report placed his killing among the city’s unresolved shootings, presenting his family not as figures in a police file but as people trying to live through an absence that had suddenly taken over everything. The account gives the case a human center: a young man whose death rippled outward through his mother, his child, and a community already worn down by funerals. 
His death also cast a long shadow over his father, Jimmy Stanback Sr., a well-known anti-violence advocate in north Minneapolis. MPR News reported that even while mourning his son, the older Stanback was still appearing publicly, urging men in the community to intervene before more young lives were lost. The article described the younger Stanback’s killing as still under investigation and tied it to the older Stanback’s visible exhaustion and grief. Read that way, the case becomes more than an isolated shooting: it sits at the painful crossroads of family, activism, and the relentless churn of neighborhood bloodshed, where even those trying hardest to stop the violence can be overtaken by it. 
As for suspects, arrests, or charges, the public online trail appears strikingly thin. CBS Minnesota reported in July 2016 that Stanback’s case had not led to an arrest. More recent public-facing databases continue to place him among unsolved Minneapolis-area homicide cases, including the Minnesota Department of Public Safety’s unsolved cases database landing page and Minneapolis-area cold-case aggregations that still list him as a murder victim rather than tying the case to a named defendant or court outcome. Based on the sources available online, no suspect has been publicly identified in the material reviewed, and no arrest, charge, trial, or conviction could be confirmed from those sources. 
